Of personal property, the laws exempt from sale on execution various articles, such as seats in churches, cemeteries, tombs, and right of burial, all arms and accoutrements, and all wearing apparel of every person and his family, the library and school-books of every individual and family, not exceeding one hundred and fifty dollars, and all family pictures. To each householder, ten sheep and their fleeces, two cows, five swine, and provisions and fuel sufficient to keep such householder and family six months. To each householder all household goods, furniture, and utensils, not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars in value. The tools, implements, material stock, apparatus, team (either one yoke of oxen, a horse or pair of horses, as the case may be), vehicle, horses harness, or other things to enable any person to carry on the profession, trade, occupation, or business in which he is wholly or principally engaged, not exceeding in value two hundred and fifty dollars, and also one sewing-machine; and a sufficient quantity of hay, grain, feed, etc., to keep the animals enumerated for six months. Only household goods, library, pictures, rights in cemeteries, and one cow and provisions, and fuel for one month, not exceeding five hundred dollars in value, are exempt from execution issued on judgment for labor. No lien can be created by mortgage or otherwise on any of the above property, except on profession, etc., without the consent of the wife, if he have one, by signing such mortgage or lien.
If a person entitled to the benefit of a homestead shall die, his widow or minor children shall have the same benefit during the time they continue to occupy the same.
MINNESOTA.
Family Bible, family pictures, school-books or library, and musical instruments for use of family; seat or pew in any house or place of public worship; a lot in a burial ground; all wearing apparel of debtor and family, all beds, bedding, and bedsteads kept and used by debtor and used by debtor and his family; all stoves and appendages put up or kept for use of debtor and family; all cooking utensils, and all other household furniture not herein enumerated, not exceeding five hundred dollars in value.
As to debtors residing in this State only: Three cows; ten swine; one yoke of oxen and a horse, or in lieu thereof a span of horses or mules; twenty sheep and the wool from same; necessary food for such stock for one year, provided or growing, or both; one wagon, cart, or dray, one sleigh, two plows, one drag, and other farming utensils, including tackle for teams, not exceeding three hundred dollars in value; provisions for debtor and family for one year's support, provided or growing, or both, and one year's fuel; the tools and instruments of a mechanic, miner, or other person, used and kept for the purpose of carrying on his trade, and stock in trade not exceeding four hundred dollars; library and implements of a professional man; the presses, stones, type, cases, and other tools and implements used by any person or co-partnership, in printing or publishing a newspaper, not to exceed two thousand dollars in value, together with stock in trade not exceeding four hundred dollars in value; one watch, one sewing-machine, one bicycle, one typewriter; necessary seed for personal use of debtor for one season not exceeding one hundred bushels of wheat, one hundred bushels barley, one hundred bushels potatoes, one hundred bushels oats, one hundred bushels flax, and ten bushels corn, and binding material for use in harvesting crop raised from such seed; the library and apparatus of and used by any public college or school; moneys from insurance on exempt property; life insurance not exceeding ten thousand dollars payable to wife or child on life of deceased husband or father; moneys or benefits payable by a police or fire department, beneficiary, or fraternal benefit association, to any person entitled to assistance therefrom, or beneficiary under certificate thereof; wages not exceeding twenty-five dollars due from services rendered during thirty days preceding attachment, garnishment, or levy of execution; earnings of a minor child of debtor, by reason of liability of debtor not contracted for the special benefit of such minor; claim for damages, and judgment thereon by reason of levy on or sale under execution of exempt personal property or the wrongful taking or detention of such property. If within an incorporated place of less than five thousand inhabitants, one-half acre, of more than five thousand inhabitants, one-third acre. Surviving or deserted spouse and minor children are entitled to the exemption. As to debts created prior to March 1, 1906, exemption continues.
MISSISSIPPI.
A homestead to every citizen of the State, male or female, being a householder and having a family, not to exceed two thousand dollars in value in country, or three thousand in town, nor one hundred and sixty acres in extent; this exemption is forfeitable, if the debtor cease to reside on the place, unless his removal be temporary.
The following property of each head of a family is also exempt: 1st. Two work-horses, or mules, and one yoke of oxen. 2d. Two heads of cows and calves. 3d. Ten hogs. 4th. Twenty sheep and goats each. 5th. All poultry. 6th. All colts under three years, raised in this State by debtors. 7th. Two hundred and fifty bushels of corn. 8th. Ten bushels of wheat or rice. 9th. Five hundred pounds of pork, bacon, or other meat. 10th. One hundred bushels of cottonseed. 11th. One wagon, and one buggy or cart, and one set of harness for each. 12th. Five hundred bundles of fodder and one thousand pounds of hay. 13th. Forty gallons of sorghum or molasses or cane syrup. 14th. one thousand stalks of sugar-cane. 15th. One molasses-mills and equipments, not exceeding one hundred and fifty dollars in value. 16th. Two bridles and one saddle, and one side-saddle. 17th. One sewing-machine. 18th. Household and kitchen furniture not exceeding in value two hundred dollars. 19th. All family portraits. 20th. One mower and rake. 21st. Wages to amount of fifty dollars per month.
The following property is also exempt to any person: 1st. The tools of a mechanic necessary for carrying on his trade. 2nd. Agricultural implements of a farmer necessary for two male laborers. 3d. The implements of a laborer necessary in his usual employment. 4th. The books of a student necessary for the completion of his education. 5th. Wearing apparel. 6th. Libraries and pictures of all persons not exceeding five hundred dollars in value. 7th. Instruments of surgeons and dentists, used in their professions, not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars in value. 8th. The arms and accoutrements of each militiaman. 9th. All globes and maps used by teachers of schools, academies and colleges. 10th. The proceeds of insurance on, or the sale of, exempt property.
MISSOURI.